The PowerSKIN Conference aims to address the role of building skins to accomplish a carbon neutral building stock. Topics such as building operation, embodied energy, energy generation and storage in context of envelope, energy and environment are considered.

The focus of the PowerSKIN issue 2021 deals with the question of whether simplicity and robustness stay in contradiction to good performance of buildings skins or whether they even complement each other: simplicity vs. performance?

As an...

This booklet presents the work of fourth-year students from Delft University of Technology, Faculty of

Architecture and the Built Environment, Chair of Heritage & Architecture, Section Heritage & Architecture.

What you see is the result of one semester’s work (20 weeks) to study together the conservation and

redesign of De Zonnehof in Amersfoort. The international group of students worked all on the architectural

relation to de Zonnehof, on different ways to exhibit, on climate control and ...

Phoebus Focus XX

In this Phoebus Focus edition, Lieke Wijnia takes the reader through the history of Saint Mary Magdalene and the little-known artist Melchior de la Mars. Moreover, the author holds up a mirror. In these crazy COVID times, De la Mars’s Mary Magdalene is perhaps more relevant than ever.

As we face new technological developments and new ways of working, rapid economic growth, globalisation, climate change, growing inequality and Covid-19, no-one can deny that times are changing fast. Therefore, organisations’ human resource management also needs to adapt: this is where Sustainable HRM (or SHRM) comes into the picture.

But what is Sustainable Human Resource Management? How does it differ from HRM, and what makes it a truly new way of looking at the management of people and o...

Het werk van Angel Vergara (°1958, Spanje) geeft gestalte aan een diepgravend onderzoek naar de kracht van het beeld. Aan

de hand van performances, video’s, installaties, schilderijen en tekeningen tast Vergara de grenzen af van kunst en realiteit, en bevraagt hij hoe de hedendaagse beeldcultuur onze private en publieke sferen vormgeeft en beïnvloedt. Elk werk is een poging om doorheen een beeld te breken en zijn esthetische, politieke en socio-culturele impact bloot te leggen. Vergara c...

Touch of Heaven is a story about Ellen, a 23-years-old Armenian woman living in Yerevan, who has just started working as a fashion designer. She grew up being very popular with lots of friends, and was almost engaged to the love of her life. Everything in her life seemed perfect until the day she got into an accident which left her in a coma. From that moment on, her soul has been wondering out of her body and she continuously lives in a world that is between death and life. Heaven would gran...

Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

The papers in this volume follow this direction by adopting various forms of dialogue and integration between old and new methods and approaches, including technological analysis, usewear analysis, typology, zooa...

IT systems have a lot of functionality. We used to present this functionality as a whole to the user. He could then choose what he needed. This created enormous amounts of stress and many erroneous actions. It doesn’t have to be that way.

A lot of stakeholder-oriented techniques may help you put the functionality in the right perspective for the user. The navigation model brings this information together and transforms it into a scenario, a narrative. Accompanied with the motivation of the ...

The composition of our brain of a human part of consciousness and analytical thinking, and a primal brain where the primary life functions are regulated, is the cause of many misunderstandings in our thinking and opinions over all kinds of things.

For example, we consider cultural matters like painting and music to be high-quality activities, whereas they are based only on physical-chemical processes that are not properly understood by the human part of our brain and therefore highly assesse...

If every signified evoked by reading or hearing any signifier is indeterminate, it makes no sense to formulate a semiotics cum philosophy that attempts to prove the correctness of the proposition that every signified is indeterminate, since that proof uses signifiers.

Those who proclaim as their unshakeable conviction that man (= every human being) is only consciousness, as the most famous structuralists and Derrida with in their wake the deconstructionists do, and that consequently only subj...